Music

2000trees Festival have announced its 3rd wave of bands for their2016 event, happening over the weekend of 7/8/9 July. Bands announced include: Mallory Knox The Xcerts Counterfeit Arcane Roots Animals As Leaders Yuck Dinosaur Pile-Up Black Peaks Creeper Milk Teeth The Magic Gang Recreations Grumble Bee Tired Lion Blackhole Brawlers Zoax WACO Demob Happy Reigning Days Dave McPherson, The Spills LIFE Puppy Then Thickens NARCS Bare Knuckle Parade and more. These awesome bands will join 2000trees Festival 2016 headliners Twin Atlantic and Refused, as well as: Neck...

Xenia Rubinos has announced her new album Black Terry Cat, which arrives in stores June 3rd on ANTI-. As Rubinos explains, “Black Terry Cat is a #browngirlmagic carpet ride powered by deep pocket backbeats and funky bass lines. "Lonely Lover" is the first full song I finished for the album - it was a real breakthrough where I felt like I'd created my own sound, and became kind of my mantra for making the rest of the album. I was listening to...

Mark the 14th in your calendar, people, London's irreverent HOO HAs are releasing their second single This Is The New Me, taken from their upcoming self titled debut EP. “I suppose this song is about the trial and error nature of learning what parts of my life are good for me,” says lead singer Jamie. “The sense of self is a flexible concept, every time you have a new thought you can be a new person. How I feel today may...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  Have been frantically record shopping all week so this one was difficult to cut down. We have a track from Bibio’s new release which is a bit of a departure in a lot of ways from the usual kaleidoscopic psychedelia we’re used to from him, along with a banger from the LA beat scene with Linafornia. We kick off with...

London's cosmic punk quartet WACO have announced their brand new EP URPISE, slated for a June 10th release on Venn Records. Unabashedly melting 70's rock influences with punk, hardcore and garage, UPRISE is as loud and urgent, as it is crafted and honest. Alongside the announcement of UPRISE, they're also debuting their blistering new single and video, SE17 and have been confirmed as main support's for both Juliette Lewis & The Licks' and The Dirty Nil's European Tours this April, and also as main support to The...

Earworms can be a dream or a curse. One day it's James Hetfield's raspy Yeah-Heahhs running hefty loops in your brain for a while, the next it's the strains of Boney M's Rasputin. On Repeat. Forever. Music-streaming service Deezer has put the latest hits to the test by analysing its global streaming data to reveal the tracks that are generating the most repeat listens so far in 2016. The slow southern rhythm of G-Eazy’s Me, Myself & I is the...

Polish alt/pop musician Brodka has unveiled the darkly dystopian video for her new single ‘Horses’. Expect engaging visuals, mystery and metaphor as illusive as the track's soundscape. "It's about transformation and spiritual metamorphose," Says Monica Brodka. "Mechanical horses. Glorifying of metal and cars. An escape into an imaginary world." Brodka recently announced the release of her first fully English language album Clashes, due for release May 13th via Play It Again Sam. Having already released three acclaimed albums in her...

By Daniel Mackenzie (@EkcaLiena) There's a unique joy in spending hours in a dark underground bunker with nothing but bass heavy drones and noise for company, the brief shuffles and breaths of other audience members reminding you that you're not alone, or dreaming; then soon afterwards standing atop a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, letting the first vibrations of a party segue, via an elaborate and extensive buffet, into early hours hedonism. This nightly sequence is simple, refined and addictive. Such...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) New research conducted by audio, video and lighting specialists AVonics has shown that live music venues may be becoming less appealing to the British public The survey discovered that 63% of people in the UK hadn’t visited a live music venue in the past 12 months. People in the 25 to 34-year-old category were more likely to have attended a live music show, with 46% saying that they had been to a concert in the past year. But...